UCU national officer and national executive committee elections
Members will have received in the post, from the Electoral Reform Society, a ballot paper to vote in the UK wide UCU elections. The mailing included printed election addresses for all the candidates for each position, and a voting form which you need to fill in and send back by post. The voting deadline is Friday 1st March, so you’ll need to post your ballot paper by Wednesday 27th February. Voting is by Single Transferable Vote, which means you can put 1 by your first preference, 2 by your second preference and so on (the instructions in the mailing provide more detail about how this works). Note: this ballot is not to be confused with voting in the industrial action ballot, which is of course hugely important! Full details of the national elections are on the UCU website here: www.ucu.org.uk/article/9677/UCU-National-officer-and-national-executive-committee-elections-in-2018-19 The Vice President post is particularly important as the elected candidate will go on to be President of our union in 2021-22. The candidates for this post, with links to their websites, are: Vicky Blake (currently President of Leeds UCU) – website and downloadable leaflet Jo McNeill (currently President of Liverpool UCU) – website and downloadable leaflet Adam Ozanne (currently Secretary of Manchester … continue reading